Publications | Te Hiringa Hauora/Health Promotion Agency

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2020 Health and Lifestyles Survey: Top line

This top line summary provides a high-level overview of results from the 2020 Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS). The HLS monitors short, medium, and long-term societal changes in attitudes, knowledge, and behaviours related to mental health and wellbeing, tobacco use, vaping, gambling, nutrition, alcohol, and sun exposure. The HLS also tracks changes in views about the social desirability and acceptability of various strategies to minimise harm from these risk factors and promote wellbeing. This summary focuses on the prevalence of these risk factors, exposure to harm, and strategies to minimise harm.

Information on mental wellbeing from our COVID-19 survey

During Alert Level 4 Lockdown and Alert Level 1 Post-lockdown (April to June 2020) Te Hiringa Hauora commissioned Nielsen to conduct two COVID-19 surveys. These surveys asked New Zealanders questions about their alcohol use and mental wellbeing.

Mental Health in Aotearoa – Insight report

This insight report describes results from the 2018 New Zealand Mental Health Monitor and 2018/19 Ministry of Health New Zealand Health Survey. The Mental Health in Aotearoa insight updates some existing information on the commonality of mental distress and population distribution of levels of mental distress, as well as presenting new findings.

Mental Distress and Discrimination in Aotearoa New Zealand: Results from...

Mental distress-related discrimination impacts peoples’ ability to contribute and participate in society. To do something about mental distress-related discrimination, we need to know more about it – how common is it, who is experiencing it, and where does it occur?

Awareness of places to get help for anxiety and depression: Infographic

This infographic describes findings from the 2018 New Zealand Mental Health Monitor. The infographic highlights the most commonly mentioned places people were aware of to get help for anxiety or depression as well as highlighting how awareness of these sources of help differed across different age groups and ethnicity.

Te Kaveinga – Mental health and wellbeing of Pacific peoples infographic

This infographic takes key findings from the Te Kaveinga – Mental health and wellbeing of Pacific peoples report.

Te Oranga Hinengaro - Māori Mental Wellbeing: Infographic

This infographic takes key findings from the Te Oranga Hinengaro – Maori Mental Wellbeing Report.

2018 Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey Methodology Report

The 2018 Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey (MHWS) Methodology Report details the procedures and protocols followed to ensure the MHWS produces high quality, robust data.

Māori aged 15 to 17 less isolated than their peers - Findings from Mental...

A new analysis by the Health Promotion Agency/Te Hiringa Hauora (HPA) has found that Māori aged 15 to 17 were significantly less isolated than non-Māori aged 15 to 17.

Wellbeing and Mental Health among Rainbow New Zealanders: Infographic

Results from the New Zealand Mental Health Monitor show that Rainbow participants were more likely to report poorer mental health compared to the total population. Rainbow participants also reported lower life satisfaction and higher rates of social exclusion.

2018 New Zealand Mental Health Monitor: Questionnaire

The New Zealand Mental Health Monitor (NZMHM) is a nationally-representative survey, conducted for the first time in 2015. This report is the questionnaire for the 2018 NZMHM which collected information about the mental health and wellbeing of New Zealand adults.

Te Oranga Hinengaro - Māori Mental Wellbeing

Hoki atu ki ō maunga, kia purea koe e ngā hau a Tāwhiri-mātea Return to your mountains, that you may be cleansed by the winds of Tāwhiri-mātea